Reform and resistance: A consideration of space, scale and strategy in legal challenges to welfare reform

Antipode

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 22-40

  Boyer, Kate ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEGISLATION; NEOLIBERALISM; REFORM PROCESS; WELFARE ECONOMICS;

EID: 33644774622     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0066-4812.2006.00563.x     Document Type: Article

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